indy car

• Question:-What are those motorcycles the indy car drivers and theier crews drive around?
  What are those motorcycles the indy car drivers and theier crews drive around?
  
  Answer:-Segway, i think.
• Question:-Which day during an typical Indy Car race weekend do the drivers sign autographs and take photos?
  I'm thinking about going to the Birmingham race. I have never been to an Indy Car race. I'm wondering what is the best day of the weekend to meet the drivers? Fri, Sat, or Sun?
  
  Answer:-I can't speak for other races, but I do know that leading up to the Indy 500 race they sign autographs on the Wednesday before the race (aka Community Day), and sometimes on Fridays/Saturdays at retail stores like Meijers, Krogers, etc.
• Question:-What are those scooters called that the indy car drivers and theier crews drive?
  What are those scooters called that the indy car drivers and theier crews drive?
  
  Answer:-Segway, i think.
• Question:-How many cheered when Danica Patrick won the Indy car race the other day?
  She became the first woman to ever when an Indy car race.
  I'm a father of daughters; therefore I'm a big fan of women's sports. She's doing it in a man's world. I say keep it going Danica. I'm pulling for ya.
  
  Answer:-I cheered! Good for her. She drove a clean race. Well deserve win and won the race with the new weight rule!
  
  I read on indycar.com (jack arute's article) that Graham Rahal and Helio Castroneves tried to downplay Danica's win. Arute pointed out that Rahal did the same startegy to win and Helio Castroneves knew that Danica will be the leader once she passed him. He was told (on the radio) not to fight for the lead or he will not make it to the finish line.
  
  Helio gave conflicting statement about the race.One in which he can't compete for lead due to fuel and the other he didn't know that Danica was the leader when she passed him.
  
  Danica humbly credited her team and race strategist kyle moyer.
  
  I had a feeling that Danica will win when Helio and Ed Carpenter went charging passed her. They were consuming more gas and Danica was driving on a consistent pace. I was praying that no yellow flag comes up and she'll get the win. All those guys upfront are just waiting for a yellow flag to come up and probably do a shootout. Unfortunately for them there was no yellow. Danica deserves the win fair and square.
  
  Like what Will Power said Danica drove a smart race and the others did not. She won it fair and square.
• Question:-What is the song on channel Versus that plays for the Indy car racing?
  I as watching the Stanley Cup playoffs and it showed a small ad on the screen for the long beach grand prix or somehing for indy car recing and it had this really sweet instrumental song in the background. It had a drm beat and strings or watever. if you know what im talkin about please help!
  
  Answer:-I think the song you are looking for is called "You Ain't Nothing but a Groundhog," as performed by Zev Boim.
  
  
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• Question:-How long will a 60 lap Indy car race last?
  I am wondering about how many hours a 60 mile indy car race will last
  the race is at watkins glen in NY state... at that track... 60 laps, how long?
  
  Answer:-Let's approach it empirically, shall we?
  
  Watkins Glen is 3.40 miles (5.43 km) in the "GP" configuration. The record for that course is held by Helio Castroneves at just under 1:30. Let's say - just for argument's sake - that under race conditions the average lap time will be 1:40. 60 laps straight out at racing speed would be an hour and forty minutes. Time for yellows and miscellaneous schlamozzles add another 20 minutes, at least. We're up to two hours. For advertising, pre- and post-race stuff and miscellaneous BS another 30 to 45 minutes and that should be about it.
  
  Grand total? Approximately two hours and forty-five minutes. I'd round it all off at about 3 hours. Give or take.
  
  How does that work for you?
• Question:-Who is your favorite Indy Car driver past or present?
  This can be any Indy Car Series, Cart, Champ Car and Fed Ex Championship Driver(s). Mine is Michael Andretti - Never had much luck at the brickyard but he rules at the Milwaukee Mile. And since 2005 I follow Danica Patrick. I know she is a hot head but she is a competitor and she will win the 500 very soon. I have been a Michael Andretti fan since 1985. Never was a fan of his dad Mario.
  
  Answer:-***Well, back in the day, I was a huge A J Foyt, Mario Andretti, Rick Mears, and Bobby and Al Unser fan. Today, I like Danica Patrick, because she is sort of a 'hot head' by not letting people walk all over her. She kinda reminds me of A J Foyt, who was my all time fav.
• Question:-What does it take for a 16 year old to become a Indy Car Driver?
  I am 16 i will be turning 17 soon i love race cars. i watch indy and f1 races when ever I get the chance. I know that everybody i asked said that I should have started karting years back but i just didn't have the money and had no one helping me. I really want to be a Indy car driver there is not anything else i want to do as bad as this. I am wondering if theres anyway i could still accomplish this dream?
  
  Answer:-indy car rules state that you must be 18 or older to drive indy cars in a race
• Question:-How much protection does a Formula One or Indy car driver have from getting badly hurt or killed in a wreck?
  How much protection do F1 or Indy car drivers have should they crash, bigtime? The cars are open cockpit, so how much safety stuff do they have?
  Thank you for the answers so far.
  
  Answer:-There is a very high level of safety mantained in Formula 1. the cars are built of Carbon compounds which are very strong as compared to other metals. Since Ayrton Senna's death in 1994, FIA has been very strict in mantaining safety measures. The Ralf Schumacher crash in 2004 US Grand prix proved how strong the F1 cars are. They have complete protection against high speed crashes.
• Question:-Why do people make fun a nascar but not the izod indy car series?
  All them yankees up north say Nascar sucks because all they do is drive in circles but you never here them making fun on the izod indy car series, it is the same thing but with stupid foreign people instead of Americans, nascar is america there for it is better
  
  Answer:-because they ask "what's the izod indycar series?"
  
  indy 500 is the only household name in that series